McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed an unusually thick veil of smoke  moving eastward across much of the Upper Midwest region of the US on 16 September 2012.This thick layer of airborne smoke contributed to a colorful sunset, as seen by the... Read More

McIDAS images of GOES-15 (GOES-West) and GOES-13 (GOES-East) 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed smoke plumes and pyrocumulus clouds associated with a pair of large wildfires that were burning in western Wyoming on 15 September 2012. Because... Read More

As a part of the GOES-14 Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) testing, the satellite provided full-disk images at 30-minute intervals during the day on 14 September 2012. For current GOES satellites, the operational full-disk image interval is 3 hours; the ABI instrument on GOES-R will... Read More

McIDAS images of MTSAT-2 10.8 µm IR channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed the formation of a large and well-defined eye as Super Typhoon 17W (Sanba) intensified over the West Pacific Ocean on 13 September 2012.A plot of the CIMSS Advanced Dvorak... Read More